{"id":30146,"date":"2022-02-11T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=30146"},"modified":"2022-02-11T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T03:15:38","slug":"mens-hockey-obrien-scores-twice-as-bu-rolls-over-pc-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/02\/11\/mens-hockey-obrien-scores-twice-as-bu-rolls-over-pc-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Hockey: O\u2019Brien scores twice as BU rolls over PC, 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Carolyn Mooney<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PROVIDENCE, R.I. &#8212; Junior forward Jay O\u2019Brien scored two goals in a 4-1 Boston University (16-10-3, 11-6-3 HE) victory over Providence College (18-12-2, 9-10-1 HE) Thursday night at Schneider Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freshman forward Brian Carrabes and junior forward Matt Brown also scored for the Terriers, while sophomore goaltender Vinny Duplessis made 24 saves to earn his third straight win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[I\u2019m] just really happy with the effort,\u201d said BU head coach Albie O\u2019Connell. \u201cWe\u2019ve got great leadership. We\u2019ve got good goaltending. Our power play was good tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a hard-hitting first period that resulted in no goals scored by either team, PC\u2019s Patrick Moynihan opened the scoring on the power play at the halfway point of the second period. Sophomore forward Brett Berard assisted to Moynihan who was open in the backdoor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the only tally the Friars would score all night as the Terriers put up four unanswered goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O\u2019Brien, who spent his freshman year at Providence, tied the game for the Terriers on the power play with less than 10 minutes to go in the second period. Shooting from the top of the right face-off circle, O\u2019Brien managed to get the puck over the stick side of junior goaltender Jaxon Stauber\u00a0 (24 saves) to even the game at one goal apiece.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jay O&#39;Brien evens things up against his old team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BUvsPC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BUvsPC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N67Fxohml5\">pic.twitter.com\/N67Fxohml5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolyn Mooney (@caramooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caramooney\/status\/1491947972640317446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJay is a competitor no matter where we play,\u201d said O\u2019Connell. \u201cObviously coming back here, he definitely gets up for certain games\u2026I\u2019m just really happy for him. He played well, I thought he responded well. He\u2019s driven offense, but he\u2019s driven play in how he\u2019s played.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providence\u2019s junior assistant captain Parker Ford received a five-minute major and game misconduct for hitting from behind at 17:24 into the second period, and the flood gates opened for BU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 seconds later, Brown shot top-shelf to put the Terriers ahead and extend his point streak to nine games.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brown scores on the Ford major to put the Terriers ahead 2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BUvsPC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BUvsPC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CbohsK1N65\">pic.twitter.com\/CbohsK1N65<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolyn Mooney (@caramooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caramooney\/status\/1491952147717451778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">51 seconds into the third period, O\u2019Brien scored again while still on the major power play. He shot the puck five-hole, adding to BU\u2019s lead to make it 3-1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">O&#39;Brien again <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BUvsPC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BUvsPC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PqSt74dcBo\">pic.twitter.com\/PqSt74dcBo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolyn Mooney (@caramooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caramooney\/status\/1491957546755710991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;ve got guys in the right seats,\u201d said O\u2019Connell on the power play\u2019s success. \u201cWe\u2019ve got two of our best scorers in shooting positions\u2026I think that [Ford\u2019s penalty] was a major factor in the game, and obviously scoring on that five-minute major was the difference of the game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About eight minutes later, BU found the back of the net again as Carrabes broke into the offensive zone, skating past two PC defenders and backhanded a shot past Stauber extending the Terrier\u2019s lead to three goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The freshman Brian Carrabes scores to extend the Terriers&#39; lead to three goals. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BUvsPC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BUvsPC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6HyCrZ7zqH\">pic.twitter.com\/6HyCrZ7zqH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolyn Mooney (@caramooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caramooney\/status\/1491960772511080448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Friars failed to answer in return, solidifying a BU victory with the Terriers improving to 12-1-1 in their last 14 games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their next matchup is Feb. 14 against Northeastern in the 69th Beanpot Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was a hard-fought game, was really physical,\u201d said O\u2019Connell on what the message is leading up to the big day. \u201cWe have to get guys physically ready. Mentally, I think that\u2019ll take care of itself playing on Monday night especially [with] the way the Beanpot\u2019s back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m. at TD Garden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image by Patrick Donnelly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carolyn Mooney PROVIDENCE, R.I. &#8212; Junior forward Jay O\u2019Brien scored two goals in a 4-1 Boston University (16-10-3, 11-6-3 HE) victory over Providence College (18-12-2, 9-10-1 HE) Thursday night at Schneider Arena. Freshman forward Brian Carrabes and junior forward Matt Brown also scored for the Terriers, while sophomore goaltender Vinny Duplessis made 24 saves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18584,"featured_media":30147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1028,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30149,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30146\/revisions\/30149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}